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Originally Posted by Breezeaway  I have a 5 page letter from Joan Gordon where she tells me they had a parti and she also talks of the other colors.
Heres a short bit about where she talks about the tri color......
"Dear Ms Mullins
Thank you for your letter, I'm glad you enjoyed our books
I must say however that I'm always fascinated by the amount of misinformation that is placed on the computer and even more so when it becomes exaggerated. WE actually had exactly one tri-color puppy born in all the years we bred Yorkies. After my sister died I gave up breeding extensively as it was what we did together. Since Jans death in 1985. I have bred exactly 4 litters and I stopped breeding completely probably 9 or 10 years ago. I could go look it up but I know Katie and Nicky were the last 2 puppies born.
I have shown several dogs that I purchased from others since then.
Our one tri-color puppy was born Dec. 10, 1976 and was a single puppy. His sire was Wildweir Counterspy and his dam was Wildweir Stitch in Time.
His Recorded name Wildweir Triplicate. He was reg with AKC #: TB426843. This was a first litter for either of his parents. We had the bitch spayed and the male neutered and both were placed as pets. I had heard of Yorkies being born in England that were Tri's but "Trippy" was the only one we'd ever seen.
We kept him until he matured. He was born a white dog with black spots and developed his tan marking as he grew up. His black spots turned to blue-gray and his tan markings came out by the time he was around six months. His temperament was all yorkie and size was very typical around 5 1/2 to 6 lbs. His coat was not as wiry as a fox terrier but certainly not as silky as a yorkie. We placed him with friends who had tried to buy him earlier when he was 2 years old and he lived to be 12 years old.
I don't have a problem writing about our "Trippy" but since the others who bred mismarked dogs that I knew about are deceased, I don't believe I can comment on them. I can only hope that they seek the truth and not just rumors! |
Thank you for sharing that. I appreciate you going to the trouble of finding it and writing it here. I am surprised she did not include anything like this in her published writings. Still, she explains she had the parents spayed & neutered so no further offspring resulted from that mating. It was the first breeding of the pair and she had gotten them from another kennel. The tri-color dog did not have Yorkie hair so it would make me wonder again if another breed had emerged from some mismating way back in the line years and years before either of these breeders got them. I mean there are two pretty significant traits NOT found in the yorkie line -- I would think first of a mistaken mating instead of thinking it evidence of some long lost maltese connection. Finding evidence of one in the line of a breeder as prolific as this.....well....still not telling me it is happening naturally from yorkie alone or that maltese ever had anything OFFICIALLY to do with our breed.
I do appreciate the information, but it is still not convincing me that maltese was in there from the beginning. I think there is probably a LOT of maltese in our breed now as sad as I feel that is. But it is from recent "parti" breeders making their own. I think those of you that come here to plead your case and try to undo anything said against the white-coats genuinely have bred your partis with other parti's or at least carriers. But that is not the case with many. I just see a HUGE problem coming in the next century when we may not be able to count on a yorkie line to throw what has long been one of the most beautiful breeds around.